Departing Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, Christina Romer says there is widespread consensus that the Recovery Act has saved or created somewhere between 2 and 3 million jobs.
Laid-off temporary federal workers, who were brought on to the government payroll by the U.S. Census Bureau to help conduct the 2010 Census, accounted for 43.6 percent of the increase in unemployed people in the United States last month.
With the unemployment rate ticking upward, President Obama said on Friday he’d roll out new plans next week to spur the economy.
‘While we have made remarkable progress toward eliminating lead poisoning in children nationwide, now is the time to focus on reaching the finish line,’ a HUD official said.
A $1.6 billion congressional bailout of sorts could help financially flailing groups that fight to keep young people out of trouble, yet lawmakers are reluctant to take up the expensive proposal amid a sour economy and other, more pressing issues.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he saw and heard evidence that the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is taking hold in critical Kandahar province.
Delaware Republicans call Senate hopeful Christine O’Donnell, the tea party candidate, a liar who ‘could not be elected dog catcher.’
A pro-life group plans to air radio ads in three congressional races calling for the defeat of Democratic incumbents. These are among the first ads to capitalize on a Supreme Court ruling this year that freed corporations to directly influence elections.
No unrest has been reported in China but food prices are politically sensitive in an economy where the poor majority spend up to half their incomes to eat.
A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport’s six concourses were evacuated after a screener spotted something suspicious in a checked bag, authorities said.
Behind the polite talk at Thursday’s re-launch of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at the State Department was a deep gulf on what Israel calls a make-or-break issue – Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.
Calling media portrayals of sex ‘unhealthy,’ the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued new guidelines calling on all media outlets to present human sexuality in a healthy, scientifically accurate manner.
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The Grand Design, an extract of which appears in the Times today, sets out to contest Sir Isaac Newton’s belief that the universe must have been designed by God as it could not have been created out of chaos. “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from [...]
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